Add UMSL to the list of universities high off of a record enrollment this fall. Numbers the school released today show that its total enrollment of 16,548 students this year — a 5 percent increase over last year — breaks…

A $3 million gift to the Missouri University of Science and Technology will fund a prominent faculty position in energy research.

The gift, which was announced over the weekend at a gala fundraising event at a private home in St. Charles…

Missouri S&T Professor Paul Worsey, right, knows how to blows things up as viewers of the Discovery Channel will soon find out.

He is the doctor of destruction — the go-to-guy when you want to blow things up.

Paul Worsey, professor of…

Today is the first day of classes at many area colleges and universities.

And not surprisingly, many of those schools are reporting increases in their opening-day enrollments.

Many universities, which have a waiting list for housing, are benefiting in part from a demographic bump…